Tunji-Ojo made the pledge when he visited Suleja Medium Security Custodial Centre, where 119 inmates escaped following a rainstorm that damaged the facility on Wednesday.
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The gunmen had, on July 5, attacked the Kuje Prison facility and freed hundreds of inmates, including suspected Boko Haram members.
The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, had declared the centres nationwide as “red flag zones’’ for any form of attacks.
He said the government has directed the security agencies to deploy personnel to critical national assets within the state and to monitor all entrances and exit points across the state.
The NCoS spokesperson, Francis Enobore, confirmed this in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja.
The command’s Public Relations Officer, Aminu Suleman, said this in a statement on Thursday in Benin.
The spokesperson of the Lagos State Command, NCoS, Superintendent Rotimi Oladokun, confirmed the situation in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria.
Dede Uzor, Chairman of the HURIDE, made this known in a statement in Awka on Thursday.
The Controller General, Nigerian Prisons Service, Ja’afaru Ahmed, says the service has not recorded jailbreaks in the country’s prisons in the last one year.